Candwich, The Sandwich In A Can

The latest innovation in sandwich technology is the Candwich, the sandwich in a can.

The foodstuff is sold inside a 3oz pop-top can and comes in three delicious flavors: PBJ Strawberry, PBJ Grape, and BBQ Chicken. Thankfully, only the first two have candy surprises inside.

Its makers, Mark One Foods, hope to go into production later this year, maybe after its inventor clears up that whole nasty SEC lawsuit that alleges he took investors money intended for real estate investments and put it in canned sandwiches instead.

But rest assured, NYT reports: “The shelf life of a Candwich is excellent, Mr. Kirkland said.”

I think it’s probably more like a Pringles can with a more sturdy “lid”. Think of those Uncrustables sandwiches that Smuckers makes. Same general concept. They don’t need to be kept chilled or anything. It’s just different packaging. Well, except for the BBQ Chicken – in that case, yes; What. The. Fuck.

I think it probably just slides out (not that that’s any more appetizing). The inside of the can is dry, with the sandwich inserted. Pop tab, remove lid, invert can, hand meet candwich. This actually isn’t new technology; canned sandwiches have been around at least since the days of WWII C-rations. These are canned biscuits, but basically the same type of thing: http://bit.ly/bEt03j

I wonder if they will last as long as other canned goods. I mean, there is a distinct benefit to having something canned. Think about all the canned goods that were sent to Katrina victims. I wonder if that’s what the creator has in mind.
Or it might just be a gimmick for kids.

Is it really so hard to make a sandwich yourself? As the rate of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and other diet related disorders explode I am so saddened by the continued push to get the population to eat the very things that are making them sick.

Many of my friends, some of whom try to eat healthy diets, are now suffering from health ailments that used to be the concern of the elderly. We are willingly ingesting poison. I mean really, PB&J is not hard to make. Fucking A!

I dunno. Place where I used to work had a sandwich vending machine. It sold everything from ready-to-eat sandwiches (chicken salad, etc), to the kind that need to be zapped (hamburgers, bbq). THAT wasn’t notable.

What was notable was that the power had a habit of failing for hours at a time especially on the weekends. That meant the refrigerated machine sat there unpowered and warming up for who knows how long. And when the power came back, it would cool back down and happily sell those sandwiches to anyone. Imagine if your home fridge went out, let the food assume room temps and rot, and then turned back on. The vending machines are just the same thing.

Rarely someone would notice and call the machine owner to come throw away all the ruined food. This happened often enough that they eventually took the machine out.

The bottom line is that there is no way to ensure the food has always been properly handled. If a machine goes down like this, chances are nobody will know.

My partner works for a company with a faulty sandwich machine. She got a free gift last time she bought one, 3 weeks of rectal bleeding and a ‘holiday’ in the local acute ward. When she complained to her employers they asked if she’d kept a sample of the sandwich in question, and when she said she hadn’t (who does that?) they laughed in her face and told her she was crazy.

So flash forward six months, she makes a joke while she’s queuing for a cup of tea, something about it being the only thing that won’t put her in hospital, someone overhears and butts in, and she finds out that two other people were hospitalised at the same time as she was, and one had to have a temporary colostomy to let his gut heal.

So I wouldn’t buy anything that required certain conditions from any machine that I hadn’t watched 24/7!

This is really nauseating. I don’t mind a bit of salt, fat, and sugar once in a while and am not some vegetarian weirdo who would never have survived to evolve but it at least has to be appetizing if it is unhealthy. It looks like the sole plus on this disgusting item is shelf-life!

I would try it for shits and giggles, but I’m not optimistic. I’ve tried canned cheeseburgers, and they were probably the worst prepared food I have ever eaten. Ever. Not even worth stashing in the Zombie Apocalypse Shelter.

Liquid smoke is actually a really good ingredient when used and prepared right. All-natural liquid smoke is just condensate of real hardwood smoke. It’s invaluable in giving smokiness to things like beef jerky, which you can’t smoke because it shouldn’t be cooked.

This isn’t such a bad idea. I mean, c’mon – they’ll fit nicely in a saddlebag. If you’re one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, you’re gonna work up an appetite after a long day in the saddle spreading Pestilence, War, Famine & Death.

If there is a lawsuit, it should be for claiming this is new, which it’s not.
“Cheeseburger in a Can” can be found on shelves in Europe, right next to “American Hotdogs in a can”
Neither of which I was brave enough to sample.

Anyone remember the canned cheeseburgers from some months back? And how the contents of the can bore almost zero resemblance to what was pictured on the outside? I have a feeling this will be the same dismal reality.

You seem to have confused the two people into one person. There’s the inventor, Mark Kirkland, who came up with the idea, and got some investors to loan him some money, and there’s the investor, Travis L. Wright, who promised other people that he was investing in real estate and would get a 24% return, and then stole some of the money, and invested the rest of it in several crazy ideas, one of which was the Candwich. The article you linked could probably state it more clearly, but Mark Kirkland is not being sued by the SEC, nor has he done anything wrong (aside from, perhaps, making the candwich). It just happens that one of the people who loaned him money lied to his clients about what he was investing in. You may want to clarify the post.

Since you can’t bring liquids & gels (ie jelly) over 3oz on a plane, maybe this was made to be taken in carry-ons to eat while flying?
My only question is how does the bread not get so soggy that it falls apart?

“Canned sandwiches – when 7-11 is too far to walk for a slim jim, and you don’t want to make a balogna sandwich.”

It’s disgusting enough to see small “snack/lunch” cans of spaghettios or whatever, but now a “sandwich” in a can? The only people worse than the manufacturer of this crap are the people who would buy it.